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- 27 Mar 2024, 16:03
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5461
- Views: 1465372
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Amazing what you can achieve with a “Selfie Stick”. ha! ha! ha!
- 20 Mar 2024, 12:04
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6067
- Views: 1725138
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
For me, it should be 892 NAS without a doubt.
- 18 Mar 2024, 12:25
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6067
- Views: 1725138
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
I think you will find that 17 Sqdn. now has 4 x aircraft and Marham has 30. Although the expectation had been for 3 and 31, but AFAIK the third aircraft from the previous batch was delivered to Edwards Air Force Base (not Marham).
- 07 Mar 2024, 19:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Possibly a new design for all four?
- 05 Mar 2024, 11:21
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Did not know that they were considering the Bristol Sycamore!
- 05 Mar 2024, 11:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 184138
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Continued retention of Tranche 1 Typhoons?
- 27 Feb 2024, 07:47
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 184138
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Failure to adequately fund Defence in the forthcoming budget should definitely become a resigning matter for both the Chancellor and the PM.
- 27 Feb 2024, 04:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058895
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
May be so, but then it was not designed as a dedicated CSG/TAPS escort! It was designed as a GLOBAL COMBAT SHIP, capable of (if not mainly) singleton deployments. One of unintended consequences the cut in T26 numbers “to save money” has left expensively outfitted ships, that in practice may be restr...
- 26 Feb 2024, 14:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
They were actually fitted (and then subsequently removed) during the last 4+ years.
- 26 Feb 2024, 14:52
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Swedish Armed Forces
- Replies: 238
- Views: 22245
Re: Swedish Armed Forces
Sweden tightens it’s “Grip” ?
- 26 Feb 2024, 11:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Thank-you, bobp. It might be “the eighth but as you say, it is just not quite clear enough.
- 26 Feb 2024, 01:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
How about what is on the near side rather than the )agreed) Merlin aft of it?
Not sure if they would mix the aircraft types on a lift though?
Not sure if they would mix the aircraft types on a lift though?
- 26 Feb 2024, 00:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
So did I, but the eighth might just be on the Forward Lift (I could not retain the focus as I zoomed in).
- 25 Feb 2024, 17:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Perhaps you would have preferred for to “sit out” the biggest NATO exercise in years and remain in Portsmouth harbour until such time as her 3 x Phalanx are re-installed? Ark Royal IV, during the Cold War even involved in a collision with a Russian Kotlin Class destroyer, which had crossed under her...
- 25 Feb 2024, 14:54
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058895
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Repulse wrote:-
That figure is an RN provided figure!£4.2bn for the 5 batch 2 T26s.
- 25 Feb 2024, 14:41
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
A considered response!
It is almost a certainty that she will not be going anywhere near a likelyhood of Missile/Drone Swarms, unless she were to be adequately escorted.
It is almost a certainty that she will not be going anywhere near a likelyhood of Missile/Drone Swarms, unless she were to be adequately escorted.
- 25 Feb 2024, 13:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058895
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The point is, that with (low) price and (basic) armaments, the first T31 will be in the water this year. The remaining four of (hopefully just) the first batch will follow in fairly short order. The T31 are needed now, as the T23 GP’s are coming to the end of their lives. Augmentation of armaments a...
- 25 Feb 2024, 10:36
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
What about the Wildcat(s)?
- 24 Feb 2024, 08:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
O you are a Card!
Possibly “Pontoon” when coming alongside, “Patience” when a shaft coupling fails or even “Snap” when a Tow-line parts?
Possibly “Pontoon” when coming alongside, “Patience” when a shaft coupling fails or even “Snap” when a Tow-line parts?
- 23 Feb 2024, 00:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Don’t have Floors either, they have DECKS!
- 22 Feb 2024, 23:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
There is no such thing as a Hanger on an Aircraft Carrier; or a Destroyer, Frigate, RFA Supply ship/Tanker either. What they all do have are HANGARS! Yes, the F35 and other Helicopters might well be in the hangar, or they may not. All I did was to offer a (rather tounge-in-cheek) suggestion as to wh...
- 22 Feb 2024, 15:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
There are only 6 x F35 on deck (possibility that 2 x F35 are in the air)?
- 21 Feb 2024, 22:48
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410750
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Well, she had a 9 month rest during 2022-2023, so she should have more than ample hours “in reserve”.
- 20 Feb 2024, 23:36
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058895
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Maybe Pompey as well!
- 20 Feb 2024, 23:30
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
- Replies: 156
- Views: 82273
Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
Self destruct button?